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Intel Smart Toy Lab In 1998, Intel Corp. and Mattel, Inc. joined forces to create a "Smart Toy Lab" in a small, trendy office space located in the northwestern part of Portland, Oregon, USA. The lab was to bring together the best toy design and consumer marketing practices from Mattel with the technology expertise and innovation of Intel engineers. The opening of this office marked the beginning

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Animallandlord A software-tool to analyse and annotate videos in the classroom. "Students can select from a total of nine digital video clips of animals, capture the frames that are indicative of the behaviors they think are important to annotate and after they label these with the appropriate scientific term, they then reflect on their observations."

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Child Culture - Play Culture The concept Children's Culture refers to two different types of cultural manifestation. 1. The cultural products made for children mainly by adults in different classical and medias, such as children?s literature, toys, TV and computergames.2. Children's oral culture and play culture produced and performed by children and transmitted within the frames of a special

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Programmable BricksThe Cricket is a tiny computer, powered by a 9 volt battery, that can control two motors and receive information from two sensors. Crickets are equipped with an infrared communication system that allows them to communicate with each other. Crickets are small and light enough that they can be carried around in a shirt pocket, collecting data about body activities. Crickets are

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Lifelong Kindergarten - Digital Manipulatives Here's the MIT group that has written several papers on educational toys and Digital Manipulatives: "...With our new digital versions of these toys, children can learn concepts (such as process, probability, and emergence) that were previously seen as too complex for children."

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Computer-augmented toysAn der Uni Paderborn enstand innerhalb der Mensch-Computer-Interaktions-AG diese informative Semesterarbeit: Der Autor stellt innerhalb dieser Arbeit drei verschiedene Instrumente vor, die Kinder dabei unterstützen sollen wissenschaftliche Inhalte leichter zu erlernen. The report is manly a translation of a MIT paper Digital Manipulatives, but also gives some interesting

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Jochen Denzingers Linkson smart toys and domestic robots.

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Experimental School Environment (ESE) Twelve i3 projects research the school of the future for the 4-8 year old. One of the projects called Pogo involved the Philips design Lab. It seems to be the most advanced project within ESE.

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Kids Design the Future At the Human Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland we believe that children should have a voice in making new technology for kids. Children's ideas need to be heard throughout the entire technology design process. Therefore, in 1998 we began a unique technology design team. Seven children, ages seven to eleven, join with researchers from computer science,

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Using Plush Toys to Direct Autonomous Animated Characters Swamped! is an interactive experience in which instrumented plush toys are used as a tangible, iconic interface for directing autonomous animated characters. Each character has a distinct personality and decides in real time what it should do based on its perception of its environment, its motivational and emotional state, and input from

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CHI2001 Short Talk: Context-aware Sensor-Doll We present a sensor-doll capable of music expression as a sympathetic communication device. The doll is equipped with a computer and various sensors such as a camera, microphone, accelerometer, and touch-sensitive sensors to recognize its own situation and the activities of the user. The doll has its own internal "mind" states reflecting different

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Interactive Barney: Good or evil? "A fast-food chain, for instance, could use an interactive toy to promote its latest specials. It could even be programmed to yelp, beep or otherwise make a ruckus whenever it passed near a restaurant. Or a TV network could give away an interactive doll inside cereal boxes, encouraging children to watch a certain Saturday-morning cartoon."

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Microsoft ActiMates - Interactive Kids Toys The PC Pack is an accessory for Microsoft ActiMates characters. When the PC Pack's radio transmitter is connected to your computer, ActiMates characters can interact with ActiMates-compatible software titles.

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Welcome to etoys!Contributions to this weblog shall deal with the listed or with related subjects:1. The meaning of toys regarding learning and cognitive development 2. Usage of new electronic and digital technology for educational tools 3. Examples of good and bad toys on the market

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